Scriblio is rather narrowly focused on the challenges of representing the collection of the library, making it easily findable and accessible, and making it social. I’m not aware of anybody trying to build circulation functions at this time, but it’s something that can be done.

That said, I should also point out that Scriblio works interactively with existing ILSs (see the note above) to display current availability. And when that’s not easily available, as for Tamworth’s Cook Memorial Library, it’s not as dearly missed as you might suspect.

The data must be imported and indexed for Scriblio to work, but essential real time data like availability and location of an item are best represented live from the ILS. That’s exactly how it works at Plymouth State University, see this example: http://library.plymouth.edu/read/222334 . The location and status information are being fetched from the ILS as the page is generated (the result is then cached for a short time).

Here’s a not-quite-current example of the code: http://about.scriblio.net/wiki/scrib_availability . When a record is displayed, a typical install calls the scrib_availability function, and that’s how the data gets fetched in real time.

We are seriously considering installing Scriblio so that we can have an online OPAC. Fortunately there is a volunteer in town who is skilled with word press and data bases in general. Have you heard of any one who might be building a scriblio extension (or whatever the proper term is) for all the circulation functions?

Leslie Vogt
Josiah Carpenter Library
Pittsfield, NH

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Scriblio is a complete OPAC replacement, but not an ILS. You can do original cataloging in Scriblio, but you’ll likely want to import records from elsewhere. As of today there are libraries getting records from an Innovative Interfaces ILS, Infocenter, plain old MARC exports, and Flickr. Work is being done to build an importer for Horizon, and the import architecture is such that an importer could be written for almost any type of data or format.